Education

Private First Class Richard M. Manley, son of Danny and Stephanie Lawson of Lawrenceburg and Richard and Anita Manley of Frankfort, graduated OSUT Infantry Training on Oct. 14, 2011 in Ft. Benning, Ga.
He is currently stationed in Ft. Hood, Texas, in the second platoon Dragon Troop Third Cavalry Regiment.
Manley is a 2011 Anderson County High School graduate.

Fifth grade students at Emma B. Ward Elementary recently made fleece blankets to donate to homeless shelters and orphanages over the Christmas season.
Art instructor Tamara Williams said fifth grade parent Jewel Bingham donated all of the fleece material for the students to work with, and the children spent about five class periods cutting and tying the blankets together.
Williams said she wasn’t sure where they would donate the 25-30 blankets, but they will probably go to a homeless shelter or orphanage in Lexington.

Clifford “Ford” William Wilson, 17, part-time resident of Lawrenceburg and currently a senior at Memorial High School and Engineering Academy in Tulsa, Okla., has just been awarded a full Naval Reserve Officer Training Corp scholarship to the University of Minnesota.

Anderson County High School graduate and Transylvania University junior Katelyn Shouse has been inducted into the Lampas Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa.
Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society, was founded in 1914 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., by 15 students and faculty members.
Students apply for ODK membership in their junior or senior year.